A Comparison Between The Cold War And The Long War

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...of the 1950s is sometimes equated with the current war against global terrorism. How accurate is it to draw an analogy between today's so called Long War and the Cold War? What are the major defining characteristics of the former that do and do not have relevance to today's war? First, it should be said that The cold war is generally thought of as the time when the U.S. and Russia were the major world powers and there was an underlying competition for each to become more powerful than the other. There had in fact been a build up in nuclear arms and a fear of communism. But things were somewhat more complex.
During the 1950s, there were two geopolitical blocs in the world that were the NATO alliance of liberal democracies, or the First World, and the Soviet bloc of state socialist nations or the Second World (McLeish, 1993). At the time, the world had been divided between the communist nations and the...

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